E. Ray Moore is in the primary running for Lt. Governor of South Carolina and has started a national debate on homeschooling and eliminating the government's role in education. He has been quoted as calling Christians to remove their children from the public funded, government education system saying, "We are feeding their system." Above the Moore has a biblical worldview, which he claims is the only way not only to save the Christian right, but also the civil government in our country and the State of South Carolina. Moore's appeal to Scripture Alone is the reason that he advances an agenda of sound money, pro-life, pro-family and home education.

"The people have spoken. Our people demand one type of politics: they
want French politics by the French, for the French, with the French.
They don't want to be led any more from outside, to submit to laws," a
jubilant Le Pen told supporters.

"The sovereign people have proclaimed loud and clear … that they want to take back their destiny into their own hands.

"We must build another Europe, a Europe of free and sovereign nations and freely decided cooperation. Tonight is a massive rejection of the European Union.

Antebellum
Presbyterian Pastor James Henley Thornwell’s understanding of
Providence envisioned no Utopian solution to slavery -- the only hope
was the gospel. He stated that “our design in giving [Africans] the
Gospel is not to civilize them, not to change their social conditions;
not to exalt them into citizens or freemen; it is to save them.”
Likewise, Robert E. Lee understood that the gentle hand of Christianity
would solve the riddle in time.

“Northerners
calling for an immediate end to Southern slavery seemed to forget the
long history of bondage in their own States. For generations African
slaves had toiled in each of the thirteen American colonies, purchased
from other Africans and brought in chains to the New World in the holds
of New England slave ships.

Pennsylvania’s
experience was instructive. There, long before independence, the
Quaker-dominated assembly recognized slavery and codified a rigorous
system of slave control. William Penn himself owned a dozen black
slaves and is said to have preferred them to indentured whites because
slave labor was permanent. In colonial days some Quakers expressed
misgivings, but most readily accepted slavery.

During
the American Revolution many Pennsylvania slaves ran away, some joining
the Tory cause, lured by promises of freedom should Britain win the
war. In 1780 the Pennsylvania legislature passed the gradual Abolition
Act, the first such statute in America. By its provisions all slaves
born before March first of that year remained slaves for life, while
children born to slaves after that date would be set free after
twenty-eight years of servitude.

Alexis
de Tocqueville observed that when Northern masters were faced with the
imminent prospect of having to let go of their slaves they often sold
them to new owners in States where slavery still existed.
“Consequently,” observed the Frenchman, “the abolition of slavery [in
the North] does not make the slave free but just changes his master to a
Southerner instead of a Northerner.” Southerners inclined to consider
emancipation had fewer practical choices in de Tocqueville’s view. “The
North rids itself of slavery and of the slaves in one move. In the
South there is no hope of attaining this double result at the same
time.”

Slavery
had other costs more difficult to measure. According to de Tocqueville,
writing in the aftermath of Nat Turner’s abortive 1831 slave
insurrection, the specter of revolt haunted the Southern mind.
Northerners, secure from danger themselves, freely discussed the
prospect of a race war drowning the South in blood. “In the Southern
States there is silence,” said de Tocqueville, “one does not speak of
the future before strangers . . .”

With
abolitionists calling for slavery’s violent overthrow, Southern
reaction to threatened terrorism was predictable. “The abolitionist is
as free to hold his opinions as I am to hold mine,” said [John] Randolph
of Roanoke, “But I will never suffer him to put a torch to my property,
that he may slake it in the blood of all that are dear to me.” Randolph
labeled slavery a “cancer,” but one that “must not be tampered with by
quacks, who never saw the disease or patient.”

When
Randolph died his slaves were freed, sent to farms purchased for them
in the free State of Ohio under the terms of his will. There they were
met by mob violence and forced to flee. Yet it was incessant
abolitionist propaganda that demonized Southerners and pictured their
country as fit only for destruction. “If Northern abolition action has
goaded and driven us to be also fanatical,” claimed Virginians Edmund
Ruffin, “our fanaticism has been, and is altogether defensive.”

Thornwell
categorized abolitionism as but one of the modern “isms,” a
manifestation of “a general spirit of madness” growing in
nineteenth-century America. “It is a hot, boiling, furious fanaticism,
destroying all energy of mind and symmetry of character and leaving its
unfortunate victim . . . a spectacle of pity and of dread.”

I was born in an old mill town in Fries, Virginia. Look at this
picture from 72 years ago of my dad holding my little sister. The old
house did not have any doors — those are old navy blankets over the
door. You could look through cracks in floors and see the hogs under the
house. The porch had hand rails and a half roof.

There were 12 kids
plus Mom and Dad living there. We farmed 15 acres to stay alive. My dad
had a bad heart, and I used to pray for God to keep me from going
through the same things, but I have had heart surgery seven times. My
wife said my health was killing her, so she left with another man. My
little dog and I live by ourselves. I preached for 31 years.

If this lawsuit goes the wrong way and Gander Mountain loses it will have chilling effect on gun shops.

Just think of the cans of worms that could be opened.

I sincerely feel for the victim’s families in this case, however, I just don’t think lawsuit is justified in the slightest.

I’m sure many people will remember the case from Christmas Eve 2012
in which William Spengler, from New York, killed his sister, lit their
home on fire, waited on emergency personnel to respond and proceeded to open fire on them with a semi automatic rifle.

Spengler was prohibited from owning guns and would not have passed
the background check procedure to purchase one. So, he used a neighbor,
Dawn Nguyen, to purchase the rifle he used in the crime for him at a
Gander Mountain sports store.

According to The Star Tribune, the suit claims several factors play into the decision to sue,

“And somehow the Treasury expects us to believe that Belgium – the center of the doomed Eurozone which is all to busy running a debt ponzi scheme of its own – bought in two months nearly as much U.S. Treasuries as its entire GDP? Apparently, yes.

However we are not that naïve. So our question is: just who is Belgium being used as a front for?”

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Russia over the last year has sold off one-third of its U.S. Treasury holdings, according to records released by the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board.

In March 2013, Moscow had U.S. Treasury holdings of $153 billion. By March 2014, the figure had been reduced to $100.4 billion.

In March alone, Russia sold off nearly $26 billion of U.S. Treasuries,.

International financial analysts widely interpreted the move as Russia’s response to economic sanctions the Obama administration imposed as punishment for taking over Crimea and threatening military intervention in Ukraine.

The war on the petrodollar that WND first reported April 12 appears to be gaining momentum.

He said this was a baby, then promptly cleaned and put it on the grill. :)

Switching places in the rain.

Blackbeards for live, country music, food and drinks. Tricky shot, but came out well.

Running hot after getting off the ferry, so called a tow. The sheriffs arrived shortly afterwards and stayed with us for 2 1/2 hours until the man arrived! Extraordinary, though I have also had two change a tire in the pouring rain after I had called a service vehicle, but they insisted. The man on the left said he liked our decals/stickers. :)

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.